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2:47 PM | Katie Piper, the TV presenter and charity campaigner who had acid thrown in her face in 2008, has regained some of her sight after receiving pioneering surgery.
12:53 PM | An Australian man was found dead in the Japanese ski resort town of Niseko yesterday, the Department of Foreign Affairs says.
Farewell Whitney
8:42 AM | US singer Whitney Houston may have drowned after falling asleep in a bathtub at a Beverly Hills hotel, possibly after taking a drug used to treat anxiety and depression, US reports say.
8:14 AM | WITHOUT Whitney Houston we would not have had Mariah Carey or Beyonce. We would not have had Adele, who grew up a fan of Carey and Houston. And it's fair to say we would not have seen or heard a good portion of the singers who appeared in clubs, pubs and on television talent shows such as Australian Idol in the past decade.  | CommentsComments (3)
Great voice falls silent
6:50 AM | Without Whitney Houston we would not have had Mariah Carey or Beyonce.  | Whitney Houston deadAust tour marred by diva's ...
After the flight, Syrian refugees prepare to fight
3:00 AM | AT A school in a small mountain village near the Syrian border, now home to seven families of Syrian refugees, Abdel Hakim Abdullah is preparing to fight.
3:00 AM | Rupert Murdoch is said to be ready to fly to Britain as his global media empire plunges into one of the deepest crises in its history.
3:00 AM | RUPERT MURDOCH was reported to be ready to fly to Britain last night as his global media empire was plunged into a new crisis with the arrest in London of five senior journalists and executives from the tabloid newspaper The Sun on corruption charges.
Doubts remain about regime's nuclear secrets
3:00 AM | RANGOON: Passengers coming and going at Burma's main international airport have had an intriguing sight in recent weeks: MiG-29 fighters streaking in tight formation at low level the length of the runway, before zooming up with the rumble of their engines arriving seconds later.
3:00 AM | JAKARTA: Umar Patek, the man who allegedly built the bomb that ripped through two teeming Bali nightclubs in 2002, is unlikely to be executed, terrorism analysts said on the eve of his trial.
3:00 AM | The waning of Bo Xilai's political star in Chongqing has left the Communist Party's conservative elders without a potential saviour.
Syrian rebel with a cause, but will he live?
3:00 AM | A soldier takes his family to safety before he returns to action.
3:00 AM | Man who allegedly built 700 kilogram bomb that ripped through two crowded Bali nightclubs in 2002 is unlikely to be executed, terrorism analysts say.
1:00 AM | The death of pop diva Whitney Houston has not shocked music critic Glenn A.Baker, who says her shambolic tour of Australia in 2010 highlighted the depth of her personal struggles.
1:00 AM | British scientists are claiming a major breakthrough after creating brain tissue from human skin.
12 Feb 12 | Whitney Houston, whose soaring voice lifted her to the top of the pop music world but whose personal decline was fueled by years of drug use, died on Saturday afternoon in a Beverly Hills hotel room. She was 48.
12 Feb 12 | LONDON: Five staff members at Britain's largest-selling tabloid The Sun have been arrested along with three other people over alleged bribes paid to police and defence officials, detectives and News Corp say.
12 Feb 12 | LOS ANGELES: A woman who stole a baby from a Manhattan hospital more than two decades ago and raised the child as her own has pleaded guilty to kidnapping and will spend at least 10 years in prison.
Syrian rebels blame regime for car blasts
12 Feb 12 | ALEPPO, Syria: The Syrian government and opposition have blamed each other for two car bombs that struck security compounds in Aleppo, killing 28 people.
Obama's timely about-turn on the pill
12 Feb 12 | WASHINGTON: The US President, Barack Obama, has retreated from a culture war with America's Christian right, agreeing to amend his health care system so Roman Catholic organisations do not have to buy the morning-after pill for employees.
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